Alexandre Mouton

Alexandre Mouton (19 November 1804-12 February 1885) was a US Senator from Louisiana (D) from 12 January 1837 to 1 March 1842, succeeding Alexander Porter and preceding Charles Magill Conrad, and Governor from 30 January 1843 to 12 February 1846, succeeding Andre B. Roman and preceding Isaac Johnson.

Biography
Alexandre Mouton was born in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana in 1804 to a wealthy plantation-owning Cajun family, and he became a lawyer in 1825. He served in the State House of Representatives from 1827 to 1832, and he was elected to the US Senate in 1837 to fill Alexander Porter's vacant US Senate seat, serving until his own resignation in 1842. He then went on to serve as Governor from 1843 to 1846, enacting fiscally conservative policies such as reducing expenditures and liquidating state assets. In 1861, he was president of the Louisiana secession convention, and he was a failed candidate to the Confederate Congress. His son Alfred Mouton, a Confederate States Army general, was killed during the American Civil War. The elder Mouton died in 1885.